Spiderpaws Battle Training

Spiderpaw flattened her ears against her head in frustration. Impressing Demonsoul was hard enough, not to mention even getting a reassuring nod from her, but she had only just begun training and was bound to get better as they progressed. "Battle moves?" She asked.

"Which ones do you know of?" Demonsoul asked, sending her apprentice a questioning glance.

OOC: Do you want to do this with the damn battle card thingy, or wtihout?

She blushed, obviously embarassed. "None that I know of." She meowed.

Demonsoul sighed softly, and got up, padding to stand in front of her apprentice. "Sheath your claws." She said softly, as she did the same, "We will start with the basics. I want you to try to knock me off your feet."

"O-Okay," Spiderpaw nodded, pulling her claws back and tucking them safely between their sheaths. She attempted to compy Demonsouls stance when they were practicing on the tree, and managed to get an okay resemblance. Bunching her haunches, she launched herself at Demonsoul with speed faster then she thought she could accomplish. She hit herself against Demonsouls side, too distracted to know weather or not she had knocked her mentor over, and landed gracefully on all four paws.

Demonsoul quickly moved forward, making Spiderpaw miss her mark completely. "You must think about what your opponent will do. Where they would move. Dont aim for where they are standing at, focus of where they might move to."

She frowned. "But what if they were going in the opposite direction that I had thought they were? There's always a 50/50 chance I would miss them entirely and give them a chance to attack while they caught me off guard."

"Its called trust your gut." Demonsoul said softly, "That, and if you pay attention to which legs they are leaning on. That'll help you figure out what direction they are going to move in." she smiled sllightly, and then leaned on her back left leg, "Try it agian."

Spiderpaw narrowed her eyes, guessing Demonsoul was going to round on her left leg and dart to the left. Denying she was right, she blindly lept to the left in attempt to catch her.

Spiderpaws guess was right, and when she hit Demonsoul, Demonsoul lost balance and fell to the ground laughing. "Good, real good." she said, smiling.

"Thanks!" She exclaimed, slightly proud of herself for impressing her mentor. "Can you try it on me? I need to practice dodging too."

Demonsoul jumped to her feet and nodded. "Get into position." she said softly.

Nodding to Demonsoul, she stepped back a few tail-lengths, her legs stiff and locked in place.

She laughed softly, "You need to loosen up. You're gonna die out there if you don't stay on your toes."

Acknowledging Demonsouls advice, she loosened her grip on the soil under her paws, allowing her paws to shift freely in the sand when she needed to lunge away from any opponents.